Improvement in straw-cutters



J. ELLIOTT.

STRAW-GUTTER.

No.177,385. Patented May 16,1876.

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UNrrEn STATES PATENT QFFIOH JOHN ELLIOTT, OF LONDON, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENTJN sTRAw-cu TERs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 177,385, dated May 1876; application filed July 6, 1875.

, To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ELLIOTT, of the city of London, in the county of Middlesex, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain Improvements on a Machine for Cutting Hay and Straw, for which United States Patent- No. 128,62l, dated Jul 2, 1872,

was granted to Thomas Hazard, ofthe town I straw-cutter, and 6 the balance-wheel, provided with operating-crank D in the usual manner. E is the oval cam, operated by the shaft F. Immediately below this cam, and at side of standard B, I affix the ratchet-slide G in suitable guards, a, which allow of its movnig freely up and down Within a certain limit inside the coil-spring H. This coil-spring lifts under the projecting head I) of the slide and raises it directly it is released from the downward pressure of the Oval cam E in the revolution of the latter on the shaft I To the lower end of the slide is attached the ratchet-dog I, and when the slide is forced down by the cam on top,'the lower end of this dog I strikes upon one of the teeth of the ratchet wheel J immediately below it and forces it down, thus turning the ratchet-wheel and communicating motion to the lower feedrollr K, onto the shaft 0 of which the ratchetwhecl J is pivoted. When released from the direct action of the cam, the spring H causes the slide to rise, and with it the dog I, in readiness for the next stroke,

I claim as my invention- The ratchet-slide Gr, coil-spring H, dog I, and guards at a, in combination with the cam E, ratchet-wheel J, and feed-roller K, operating substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN ELLIOTT; Witnesses:

HENRY BEECH, PHILIP J. EDMUND. 

